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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:47:03 +0100
From:      Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   amd64, 57600 serial install help
Message-ID:  <500AEB17.6030907@ifdnrg.com>

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what am i doing wrong here?

 From rebuilding the install iso and from the handbook instructions 
here: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html
which suggests that in /boot/loader.conf only

console="comconsole"

is required,

i have tried this and also explicity setting speed in boot/loader.conf

console="comconsole"
comconsole_speed="57600"

i have also tried having the settings i use to access via serial post 
install
ie:

  /etc/ttys:    ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600"  vt100   on secure
and /boot/config:  -D

but same result, install stops ( or goes elsewhere at point below)

It does boot stage 1 and stage 2 then i get nothing?

test serial output:
-----------------------------------------
CD Loader 1.2
r Configuration Menu ...
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0 in 5 sec......
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 640kB/3668736kB available memory

FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 3 06:51:49 UTC 2012)
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(nothing after this point)


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